thorn

英 [θɔːn] 美 [θɔrn]

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※ 提供单词"thorn"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

thorn 刺，荆棘

来自古英语 thorn,刺，荆棘，来自 Proto-Germanic*thurnuz,刺，来自 PIE*stei,尖刺，尖木棍，词源同 stick,thistle.

thorn: thorn: [OE] Thorn is an ancient word, which goes all the way back to an Indo-European *trnus. The Germanic descendant of this was *thurnuz, which evolved into German dorn, Dutch doorn, Swedish and Danish torn, and English thorn.
thorn (n.): Old English þorn "sharp point on a stem or branch," earlier "thorny tree or plant," from Proto-Germanic *thurnuz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian thorn, Dutch doorn, Old High German dorn, German Dorn, Old Norse þorn, Gothic þaurnus), from PIE *trnus (cognates: Old Church Slavonic trunu "thorn," Sanskrit trnam "blade of grass," Greek ternax "stalk of the cactus," Irish trainin "blade of grass"), from *(s)ter-n- "thorny plant," from root *ster- (1) "stiff" (see stark).

Figurative sense of "anything which causes pain" is recorded from early 13c. (thorn in the flesh is from II Cor. xii:7). Also an Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic runic letter (þ), named for the word of which it was the initial (see -th-).

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1. Richard Chamberlain has agreed to make a sequel to "The Thorn Birds".: 理查德·张伯伦已经同意接拍《荆棘鸟》的续集。

5. Thorn's electronics operation employs around 5,000 people.: 索恩的电子公司雇用了约5,000名员工。